Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi

The True Dharma Eye: Master Dogen’s Three Hundred Koan Shobogenzo, Case #25

 Zen Mountain Monastery, 9/29/2018

What does it mean to bow to the Buddha, to the mountain, to our teachers? Shugen Roshi speaks of a kind of veneration that allows us to be earnest in asking for the teachings while maintaining deep faith in our own enlightened nature.

Ron Hogen Green, Sensei

The Gateless Gate, Case #12

Zen Mountain Monastery, 9/28/2018

Vividly evoking the ‘village’ of personas we each contain, Hogen Sensei urges us to acknowledge and learn from our multiple identities without mistaking them for a fixed self.

Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei

Zen Mountain Monastery, 09/26/2018

Hojin Sensei uses the life and enlightenment poems of Mugai Nyodai Daiosho, the first female Zen master in Japan, to explore keeping it together and falling apart in practice.

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi

The True Dharma Eye: Master Dogen’s Three Hundred Koan Shobogenzo, Case #129

 Zen Mountain Monastery, 9/26/2018

Shugen Roshi speaks about the karmic patterns of the mind as they arise in zazen and the need to find a middle way between suppressing thought and being swept away by it.

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi

From Master Dogen’s Fascicle “Buddha Ancestors”

 Zen Mountain Monastery, 9/23/2018

Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Senior Monastic

Zen Center of New York City, 9/23/18

Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei

Vanessa Zuisei Goddard, Sensei

Zen Mountain Monastery 9/16/2018

At the conclusion to this year’s Wild Grasses Sesshin, a meditation intensive for those who identify as women, Hojin Sensei and Zuisei Sensei investigate the roles we assign our ancestors, both personal and spiritual. Are we making the best use of them? Are they making the best use of us?

Ron Hogen Green, Sensei

 Zen Center of New York City, 9/16/2018

Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei

Blue Cliff Record, Case #24

Zen Mountain Monastery, 09/15/2018

Ron Hogen Green, Sensei

Transmission of the Light, Case 27

 Zen Center of New York City, 9/15/2018